John Ruskin Quotes

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

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• If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Real
  • Free
  • Interesting

• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Christian

• What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Walk

• I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Style
  • Smart
  • Humor

• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Opinion
  • Facts
  • Students

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I want to be up front racing.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Racing

• People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • Politics

• People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • More
  • Optimistic

• As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Pain
  • Athlete

• 'Malthus,', says Vice President Al Gore in Earth in the Balance, 'was right in predicting that the population would grow geometrically.' Al, as the father of four children, should know.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Father
  • Earth

• I write... for laymen and scientists, because the reader who is interested in any activity which needs thought and judgement is... a person to whom science can be made to speak, It is not he who is deaf, but the specialists who have been dumb-the specialists in the arts as well as in the sciences.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Dumb

• But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Live

• Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• There is nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home. When you've lost it all, that's when you finally realize that life is beautiful.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Lost
  • Trail
  • Life Is Beautiful

• To see that 180, it feels like the biggest backstab that you could possibly feel.

  

  Marlon Jackson The Jacksons
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Backstab

• A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Soldier

• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  

  Benjamin Harvey Hill
  • Friend
  • Christian
  • Soldier

• I think everybody has their own process as a leader, and I think for me it's ever-evolving.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Leader
  • I Think
  • Everybody

• No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Soldier
  • Pay
  • Workman